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by nbevans 12y ago
I could not agree more. I'm staggered I've been down voted into oblivion for actually holding an opinion. I bet the down voters aren't even Brits so they don't even understand my point of view. We suffered massively from
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by nbevans 12y ago
Well the Brits care way way more about Iraq and the Chilcot Inquiry than they do about invasions of their own privacy by their own government. What does that tell you? At least we have our priorities in order.
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by nbevans 12y ago
Firstly, burying my head in the sand implies that I would want it to go away. I don't really mind how much we snoop on terrorist hotbed countries, to be completely honest? Secondly, yes the press has been gagged for some time but it wa
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by nbevans 12y ago
I'm a Brit and I'd rather not know what our government does to maintain our national security. At least not in situations like this when knowing about it means that it undermines the ability of that asset. It's one thing for
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by nbevans 12y ago
Is this available to download or what? Even as a beta?
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by nbevans 12y ago
This bodes well for NewMicrosoft and Nadella.
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by nbevans 12y ago
Interesting reply, thanks!
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by nbevans 12y ago
They really need to fix the non-sensical "North" and "West" Europe naming. Amsterdam is western Europe, yes, but so is the UK and Dublin where their "North" Europe region is. A better name would be Central Euro
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by nbevans 13y ago
Don't be silly. Other than perhaps in a school playground where _any_ word said repeatedly enough can be considered abusive, boffin is not word that anyone can take offence from really.
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by nbevans 13y ago
How tragic it is that VB gets type cases, guard cases and exception filters well before C#. I guess that's why F# is starting to hit the prime time.
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by nbevans 13y ago
Quite a lot of people actually. These moves have been on the cards for years. Just waiting now for the next big move in the coming months of when they acquire Xamarin.
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by nbevans 13y ago
This describes perfectly what a Winsock reset performs and it doesn't exactly correlate with your FUD: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/299357 So there is no real distinction here between a Winsock reset and the eq
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by nbevans 13y ago
The fact you merely once did tech support and then moved to PHP development explains why you hold ridiculous opinions on various things. I'm sure Winsock reset _did_ solve a lot of problems, for you. But at the same time you probably j
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by nbevans 13y ago
Yes it is. No it isn't. Yes it is. No it isn't. Repetitive much? There's nothing wrong with the network stack in Windows. NT has always had a first class network stack and they keep improving it with every release, as is norm
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by nbevans 13y ago
Agreed, it's been possible for years, especially with PCL libraries gaining significant traction last year. But these announcements and improvements have made things even easier than before. And to a certain extent have made what was o
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by nbevans 13y ago
Wait just a minute. The topic was registry corruption. Not whether the registry is a good or bad idea as a whole. All I said is that the registry corruption is a non issue. It was a slight problem on Windows 9x; but it never happened to me
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by nbevans 13y ago
It's rare on Windows too. Only on Hacker News, on this thread, does it appear to be an issue.
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by nbevans 13y ago
None of the "problems" of which you speak are actually mainstream problems. It's perfectly possible to hose your network stack in any OS. Just don't do that and you'll be fine. USB drivers, sound drivers, printer dr
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by nbevans 13y ago
What's to say, once they complete the purchase of Xamarin, that universal also includes OSX, iOS, Android and even Linux?
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by nbevans 13y ago
It's a common expression though what his post was based upon. "[You don't get paid to write software as a Java dev, you get paid and judged by the amount of lines of code you write.]" If Java and other imperative devs ha
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by nbevans 13y ago
1. Functional programmer makes bold factual statement. So "bold" that it is almost perceived as trolling by imperative programmers. 2. Hacker News' usual suspects fail to grok remotely what he is even saying. 3. GOTO 1.
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by nbevans 13y ago
"I'm not going to dump links here to the scores of Daily Mail reports, to offer as proof of how "efficiently"" Good, because the Daily Mail is laughed at in the UK as being gutter press. It is our version of what th
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by nbevans 13y ago
What you've just described is a proper micro service architecture. Which is basically a more minimalist and opinionated form of SOA. Nothing wrong with wanting to avoid dependencies. Good programmers try to avoid dependencies and coupl
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by nbevans 13y ago
It's magnitudes cheaper than hiring a team of developers for each mobile platform, like what most of the sheep following the herd companies seem to do. Xamarin leaves details to do with views and presentation up to you. In a properly d
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by nbevans 13y ago
So baking in Xamarin as a compile target in Visual Studio. Conciously changing their licensing terms of various BCL NuGet packages to allow their unrestricted use on Xamarin/Mono platforms... yeah, there's clearly no hints at all
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by nbevans 13y ago
Sounds like you've not tried a functional language yet in your life :p
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by nbevans 13y ago
Roslyn and the MS/Xamarin partnership suggest Mono will be benefiting in some big ways in the coming year.
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by nbevans 13y ago
Entity Framework is really not a good excuse. .NET has lots of great things going for it. Entity Framework is firmly on the "enterprise .NET" list of such items though. .NET has always been able to do what Node does anyway. It h
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by nbevans 13y ago
Pretty sure it is a joke.
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by nbevans 13y ago
As you go through your career it will only get worse like this before it gets better. Normally when it gets truly better is around the point that you start your own business.

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